I tried that but it did not work. Dug a little deeper and saw this line in bin/kafka-run-class.sh:
KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dkafka.logs.dir=$LOG_DIR $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" changed the above to: KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="$KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" and it writes to my configured kafka.logs.dir jim On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > you can configure it under /opt/kafka/config/log4j.properties and look > for kafka.log.dir > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Jimmy John wrote: > > How do I configure the application kafka log dir? > > > > Right now the default is /var/log/upstart/kafka.log . I want to point it > > to > > a different mount dir... e.g. > > > > /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties > > --logdir /mnt/kafka/kafka-app-logs > > > > But the above gives me errors : > > > > USAGE: java [options] KafkaServer server.properties > > > > > > NOTE: these are application log dir , not the data directory. > > > > > > Any recommended way to point the application log to a different place? > > > > thx > > > > jim >
